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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He puts the variation down to pigeon damage and heavy rains after desiccation .
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In this way the timbers will be protected from repeated desiccation and expansion, potentially a grave danger to such ancient wood.
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Indeed, in order to develop properly, brine shrimp eggs have to undergo a period of desiccation .
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Insects can also lose heat by evaporation from their spiracles, but this may lead to desiccation .
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Perhaps this is a response to desiccation .
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The funerary archaeologist has to be certain of the differences between desiccation and chemical preservation: embalming.
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The same note of emotional catharsis was sounded by the Romantic poets in general, after the desiccation of late neoclassicism.
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Unprotected in the desert, they would lose so much water by evaporation that they would quickly die of desiccation .